If I even TRIED to craft anything remotely worthwhile, it’d take me weeks to chip through all the brain mucous, so… Bullet points it is. My Mother’s Day present from Holly Marie Jewelry arrived. You can’t see the detail because I need photography intervention, but Toots’ and Booger’s names/birthdates are on the…Continue Reading
Archives for April 2010
A Lull
I’m currently lazing in bed, sick tissue at the ready, listening to the most majestic wind outside my window. The shades, pulled down to soften the sunlight, undulate against the window and there’s a subtle whooshing, not unpleasant, letting me know that the world is breathing and all is well, all is well. It’s…Continue Reading
Get in Free to Fleet (San Diegans!)
Starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 1, the first 1,500 people through the doors of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center will receive free admission. An IMAX® film can be purchased for $5 per film (also limited to first 1,500 guests to visit the Science Center on May 1.)
Pointless, As In Lacks a Point
As a sworn hypochondriac, it’s my moral duty to distinctly remember every time I was really sick, not the in-my-head sick of every other day. And oh how I remember in vivid, technicolor detail. Let’s see, there was the time I was 13 and felled by some mysterious virus flu microbe that made my eyes…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #104: Going Back. Again
This morning Toots asked me if we could live in our house forever. Given that we rent the place, I knew the answer would be “no,” but I didn’t have the resolve to say it. As a kid who moved and moved and moved, I understood her question on a deep heart-level. Luckily, when I…Continue Reading
Types of People Working in Those Free Wi-Fi Places*
I spend a lot of time in coffee joints that offer free wi-fi. It’s where I do the majority of my work. As any freelancer knows, if you’re a mom who works from your physical place of residence, you’re totally screwed. There’s the laundry calling, the counter crumbs collecting, and the vacuum sitting; ain’t no…Continue Reading
Stuff I Like: Wearing My Kids Around My Neck
I went to dinner with a friend the other night and couldn’t help but notice the new enormous diamond ring on her finger. “Wow that’s beautiful!” I said. “Truly.” A rock of monumental size, the diamond sparkled like a thousand very expensive stars that cost a lot of very expensive money. She…Continue Reading
Bye Bye
Do you know those people who take everything very seriously? And you have to watch what you say because they offend so easily? And more often than not you say something completely innocent and they take it the wrong way? Take for instance an acquaintance named Lamey. She is single and having a great…Continue Reading
This Was Supposed to be a Tip, Not a Tale of Rage and Woe
I love thrift stores. Love, love, LOVE thrift. Stores. Love ’em. If you want me to have a multiple O, first take me to the library, then to Rubio’s and finally, to the Goodwill. I would O all over the place. And not the Oprah kind. Serious. So…Given that it’s…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #103: Maudlin
I took this picture at my mom’s 50th birthday party in 1991. Who knew then that 19 years later, two of the smiling people would be dead, my dad remarried, and the house sold. The day I snapped this photo was a happy one. My mom had overcome breast cancer, my parents were…Continue Reading
Every Street Has One
She runs inside to where I am at the sink, washing the endless dishes. I hear her fling her shoes off and soon she’s before me in a puff of anxiety. She’s breathless and wild-eyed. “Mom? Is my head going to fall off?” I know who this is coming from, and I’m…Continue Reading
Know A Mom Biz Owner Who Needs Some Publicity?
Know a SoCal mother who launched a small business in the last 12 months and is looking for a much needed way to spread the word? Read about how to nominate her (or yourself!) here, here, or here to win space at a KidsFest double-sized booth with the fabulous organization HelpAMotherOut. KidsFest happens in…Continue Reading
